Consumers Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

— John Elkington

The level of consumption that we identify with success is utterly unsustainable. We're gobbling up the world.

— John Robbins

Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more…

— Tim DeChristopher

“The system of consumerism may seem like an immovable fact of modern life. But it is not. That the system was manufactured suggests that…

— Rachel Botsman

I think we're becoming a bit less attached to consumerism.

— Claudia Jessie

The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one…

— Pope Francis

Over-consumption is a cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals. It distances us from the great masses of broken bleeding humanity. It converts us…

— Richard J. Foster

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don't actually improve their lives.

— Jeff Bezos

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able…

— Pope Francis

What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise)…

— Rodney Clapp

consumption can be very harmful to the world. I'm not a big proponent of the idea that consumption makes you morally bad, but there…

— Judith Levine

I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated…

— John Elkington